Tag Archives: Prince

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 7 — Shuffle, Step, But Change…Not So Much

Since this blog’s inception a few years back London-based composer Shawn Lee has appeared in our pages no fewer than three times. His most recent appearance was of course in Tuesday’s post, where I featured his newest LP Soul in the Hole alongside metal-masked rapper/producer DOOM’s new record Born Like This. But […]

Lips, Sweat and Fake Asian Names

This morning I woke to a local news story about an aspiring Hip-Hop mogul caught up in a plot involving drugs, guns and kidnapping just a few towns away. While at the local news outlet’s site I noticed they have a new Twitter feed, which I clicked, intending to “follow” it. The first […]

Norway and Germany “Got That White”

Sunday into Monday most of the Eastern seaboard was socked with a late Winter storm that local meteorologists were predicting as the “worst of the season.” I don’t know if the system lived up to the hype, but we appear to have received a solid foot here in Western Massachusetts where every sidewalk is […]

Rave, Rave Before the Crying of the Light!

Favoritism towards an album that marries hippie-hearkening Pop to mutant club beats and a single that revives Boz Scaggs-esque country-boy Disco is one thing, but the love I had for the Disco magic revivalism of last year’s self-titled debut from Hercules and Love Affair was something else entirely. I mean, chunky club beats or […]

The British May In Fact Be Coming

Yeah, so our new pres is freakin’ awesome, there’s change in the air, and America has a reason to be proud of itself for once. That’s all pretty righteous, but most of the music on the radio still blows, so we shouldn’t forget there’s a whole world of sound out there to explore. […]